Description: All the Modern Conveniences : American Household Plumbing, 1, Paperback by Ogle, Maureen, ISBN 0801863708, ISBN-13 9780801863707, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US
As any American who has traveled abroad knows, the American home contains more, and more elaborate, plumbing than any other in the world. Indeed, Americans are renowned for their obsession with cleanliness. Although plumbing has occupied a central position in American life since the mid-nineteenth century, little scholarly attention has been paid to its history. Now, in All the Modern Conveniences, Maureen Ogle presents a fascinating study that explores the development of household plumbing in nineteenth-century America.
Until 1840, indoor plumbing could be found only in mansions and first-class hotels. Then, in the decade before midcentury, Americans representing a wider range of economic circumstances began to install household plumbing with increasing eagerness. Ogle draws on a wide assortment of contemporary sources—sanitation reports, builders manuals, fixture catalogues, patent applications, and popular scientific tracts—to show how the demand for plumbing was prompted more by an emerging middle-class culture of convenience, reform, and domestic life than by fears about poor hygiene and inadequate sanitation. She also examines advancements in water-supply and waste-management technology, the architectural considerations these amenities entailed, and the scientific approach to sanitation that began to emerge by centurys end.
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Book Title: All the Modern Conveniences : American Household Plumbing, 1840-1
Number of Pages: 232 Pages
Publication Name: All the Modern Conveniences : American Household Plumbing, 1840-1890
Language: English
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Item Height: 0.5 in
Publication Year: 2000
Subject: Construction / Plumbing, Social Aspects, History, Customs & Traditions
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 13 Oz
Item Length: 8.9 in
Subject Area: Technology & Engineering, Social Science
Author: Maureen Ogle
Item Width: 6 in
Series: Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
